"This is Researcher Obrien. He's researching what he calls the 'building blocks of life', he describes them as the 'fundamental units of all that exists'. He theorizes that by taking control of these elements, with enough energy, it's possible to recreate any ore in existence, even long since extinct ones."
Dyon almost chuckled at the sight of Obrien turning his eyes toward him. It was almost like a child asking for a toy. In the end, he decided to stop addressing Lyla, it seemed his little scheme had worked.
"In my world these building blocks were once known as atoms. It was later that we decided that even atoms had their own individual parts and that, even further than that, the protons, neutrons and electrons that made up atoms had an even more basic building block as well… called quarks.